Great Workouts in an Hour (or Less!)

SUMMARY: What type of workout should you be doing? Cardio or strength training? Supersets or high intensity interval training? How often do you work your abs? Fitness instructor Lisa Corsello gives you an easy formula to create an effective, personalized workout that takes an hour or less. As a fitness professional, […]

Fed Chief Takes Heat From Republicans

http://pix04.revsci.net/H07707/b3/0/3/0806180/895128067.js?D=DM_LOC%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.themuslimtimes.org%252Fwp-admin%252Fpost-new.php%26DM_CAT%3DNYTimesglobal%2520%253E%2520General%26DM_EOM%3D1&C=H07707WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans criticized the Federal Reserve on Thursday for working to reduce unemployment and revive the housing market rather than maintaining a single-minded focus on inflation. The Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, was sharply questioned by members of a House committee about the Fed’s announcement last week that […]

Does Islam Condone Honour Killings?

Source: Kingston This Week – Islamic group holds open house The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada (AMYA) is holding a number of open houses this weekend at public library branches, to promote peace, condemn terrorism and dispel myths about honour killing. Rizwan Rabbani, the National Executive Director of the […]

Mega volcanoes may be predicted

Source: BBC The eruption of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet could be predicted several decades before the event, according to researchers. Analysis of rock crystals from the Greek island of Santorini suggests eruptions are preceded by a fast build-up of magma underground, which might be detected using […]

Blasphemy laws

THE list of those charged or accused under the country’s questionable blasphemy laws — that too on the flimsiest of pretexts — is far too long. Soofi Mohammad Ishaq, sentenced to death by a judge in Jhelum on Monday in a blasphemy case, is another addition to this unenviable list. As […]

Taslima’s book launch cancelled

Source: BDNews24 Dhaka, Feb 1 (bdnews24.com) – Kolkata Book Fair cancelled the release of Taslima Nasreen’s latest book, Nirbashan, which was scheduled at 3 pm Tuesday. The organisers of the fair, Publishers and Booksellers Guild, telephoned the publisher to cancel the auditorium booking, The Times of India said. “We were […]